Poll: Who's trustworthy on guns?

The American public is split over whom to trust on gun laws — President Barack Obama or congressional Republicans — but supports a variety of gun control measures pushed by Democrats, according to a poll released Tuesday.

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Ninety-one percent back a law requiring background checks at gun shows, and 82 percent support a law — approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week — making gun trafficking a federal crime. An assault weapons ban draws less support, with 57 percent backing a law. Those results match earlier polling on the topic.

Two of those proposals — the national database and the semi-automatic weapons ban — go beyond what Democratic senators and President Barack Obama have supported. A majority of Latino Republicans supported all of the measures except the ban on semi-automatic weapons.

The poll points to yet another area where Democrats have an advantage over the GOP with Hispanic voters. Republicans have made rebuilding bridges with Hispanic voters a priority since the 2012 presidential election, when Mitt Romney won less than a third of the Hispanic vote.

The Post/ABC poll, conducted from March 7 to March 10, has a sample of 1,007 adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The Latino Decisions poll of 500 registered Latino voters took place from Feb. 20 to Feb. 28. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.